PHOTO: Man Sentenced To 70-Year Imprisonment For Spitting At Policemen A Texas man was sentenced to 70 years in prison Wednesday, April 12, after he was found guilty of spitting at Lubbock police officers during an arrest last May. Larry Pearson, 36, was arrested in May 2022, for domestic vio^lence after a victim flagged down an officer in northeast Lubbock, prosecutor Jessica Gorman said. The victim told police that Pearson had hit her several times and that he had a gun. Gorman said that firearm turned out to be an airsoft gun.
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Mum Strangles Her 11-Year-Old Son Over Family Financial Struggles Ruth DiRienzo-Whitehead, 50, told detectives that her son Matthew Whitehead was “crying off and on all day over the family’s financial difficulties”, according to an affidavit obtained by WPVI. Ruth added that she did not want her son growing up “with these struggles” and therefore used her husband’s belt to str^angle him in his sleep.
Real Reason Why Tinubu Is Still In Europe Real Reason Why Tinubu Is Still In Europe – APC The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday said that President-elect, Bola Tinubu, is resting in Europe ahead of his inauguration on May 29. Mr Felix Morka, APC National Publicity Secretary, stated this on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. According to Morka, Tinubu will swing to action immediately after he returns from Europe. When asked about the whereabouts of Tinubu, Morka said, “He [Tinubu] is probably in Europe. He’s fine. After the elections and all of the energy expended, he just decided to…
Nigerian Couple Kills Akwa Ibom Woman, Dumps Her Body A Nigerian couple has been arrested for the murder of a Nigerian woman identified as Happiness Monday, in Libya. The Libya Observer, in a report on Wednesday, April 13, 2023, said police forces arrested the couple in Tripoli. According to the report, the suspects allegedly killed the woman and dumped her body in the street near the Nigerian Embassy in Tripoli. A Nigerian sports journalist and Libya returnee, Oyiza, who had reported about the murder last month, said the wife hit the deceased on her head with a heavy metal and…
JUST IN: Thousands Of Nigerians To Get New Job As Buhari Finally Moves To Sign Peace Corps Bill The Peace Corps Bill which was harmonised and passed into law last week after the Conference Committee laid its report has been transmitted to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent. The Clerk-to-the National Assembly, CNA, Sani Magaji Tambuwal transmitted the bill on Wednesday in anticipation of President Buhari’s assent before he leaves office on May 29, 2023. The letter which was addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari dated April 12, 2023, cited relevant sections of the Constitution and urged him to assent to the…
Atiku Has Been Losing Presidential Election Since 1993 – Tinubu Mocks PDP Presidential Candidate Atiku Has Been Losing Presidential Election Since 1993 – Tinubu Mocks PDP Presidential Candidate The “President-elect”, Bola Tinubu, has described calls for a run-off of the March 18th 2023 presidential election as baseless. Tinubu also queried the legal competence of the petition the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, filed to nullify his election. The Independent National Electoral Commission had announced Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 election. Atiku, who came second in the election had filed his petition to challenge the…
More Trouble Looms: It’s Now Clear That Tinubu Forfeited $460,000 For Drugs Charges, Not For Tax – Atiku Urges US Govt To Release More Documents More Trouble Looms: It’s Now Clear That Tinubu Forfeited $460,000 For Drugs Charges, Not For Tax – Atiku Urges US Govt To Release More Documents The camp of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has lambasted the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, for trying to present the $460,000 forfeiture case as one relating to tax evasion and not drug charges. Ibom Focus had reported how…
Man Burn Ex-girlfriend Alive Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Man Burn Ex-girlfriend Alive A man who burned his ex-girlfriend alive on a town square in Peru has been tracked down in Colombia and arrested, the government in Lima said Wednesday. The man, Venezuelan Sergio Tarache Parra, 19, stands accused of dousing 18-year-old Katherine Gomez with gasoline and setting her alight on a central square in Lima on March 18. She had broken up with him days earlier. Gomez was admitted to hospital with burns to 60 percent of her body and died after six days of agony in a…
BREAKING: Police Dismiss Escorts Of Nigerian Popular Singer Over Shooting The authorities of the Nigeria Police Force, on Thursday, dismissed officers attached to the famous praise-singer of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Dauda Adamu Kahutu Rarara. Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the spokesman of the force, who announced the decision at Force Headquarters in Abuja, said the officers were dismissed for wasting live ammunition. The escorts were recently captured firing live bullets into the air as the singer made his way into his vehicle. Their action had sparked outrage and the force vowed to take action. Details shortly…
JUST IN: FG To Suspend Census Information reaching Ibom Focus says that FG To Suspend Census Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, on Thursday, called on the Federal Government to suspend the conduct of Census scheduled for May. Ortom made the call when he received a delegation from the Middle Belt Forum led by its President, Dr. Bitrus Pogu, at Government House in Makurdi. The governor said many people of the state were in the IDP camps and would not be counted because they need to be in their localities before they can participate in the exercise. He said before…